I just got a SunBlade 100 off of eBay, and I'm trying to install Gentoo (or OpenSolaris, I haven't decided which yet). However, the first step in booting from a CD-ROM is to hit "Stop+A", and the only keyboard I've got is a standard x86 keyboard, which is sadly lacking in the "stop" key department. Is there an alternate way of getting it to boot off a CD?

As an alternative, the computer tries to netboot if left to itself. Is netbooting from an x86 system a practical way of installing?

I just got a SunBlade 100 off of eBay, and I'm trying to install Gentoo (or OpenSolaris, I haven't decided which yet). However, the first step in booting from a CD-ROM is to hit "Stop+A", and the only keyboard I've got is a standard x86 keyboard, which is sadly lacking in the "stop" key department. Is there an alternate way of getting it to boot off a CD?

As I've just been trough this myself, I found a solution (thanks to google) : you can go to the OpenBoot command line when booting the machine if you push the power button 2 times after the first beep. It's not always easy (timing), but once you got the right rhythm, it's a good alternative to STOP+A.